Finding Cozy Among the Chaos

  It's Birthday Party Season! 🎉🥳 Every parent knows what I mean when I say that. Its that time of year, usually about a month into the school year, when we start getting birthday party invitations out the wazoo.  It's only October 14th (at the time of writing this) and we have already had 4 ( YES FOUR ) separate birthday party invitations.  Two of the parties, luckily enough, were on the same day, at the same trampoline park, back to back, so that was easy enough to navigate. We went to the first party from 12pm to 2pm and then just moved tables to the second party from 12pm to 4pm.  The other two parties, we weren't as lucky. Both of them were on the same day, at the same time, in two completely different places - on the opposite sides of the county.  So, my daughter was faced with a choice - who's party to go to? Begin the Great Birthday Conundrum! Now, as a parent, I could have easily chosen which one we were going to and not given her a choice in the matte...

What the What?  I'm not going to lie, I seriously though blogs died back in 2006. High-school, scene/emo, Myspace era KitCat is thrilled right now. Where is a mirror so I can snap a quick selfie? Just kidding. About the selfie part, not the rest of it. For proof here is me, circa 2007 (my junior year of high school): I still can't believe my mom made me go to Catholic school. This picture is pretty tame, especially makeup wise. I usually never left the house without half a pencils worth of eyeliner on (that I was usually forced to take off by 3rd period cause Catholic high school had pretty strict rules).  I am also pretty sure I had a blog when this picture was taken. God if I could only remember what I used to write about. Probably a lot of complaining - teenage problems you know. Anyways... Back to the Present We all have stuff going on in life, and when you find someone who seems to be going through the exact same stuff you are its reassuring! That is the point of this blo...